The Malayan artist Cheong Soo Pieng (1917-83) is hardly a household name in Europe. Virtually all of his paintings that have sold at auction in recent decades came under the hammer in Hong Kong or Singapore.
So it was something of a sensation when Geble (19% buyer’s premium) in Radolfzell, on the shores of Lake Constance, had three of his works to sell on April 29.